About ~/randomDev
This is the website of Pete Hurst, web developer. Here you can read my personal blog and view updates on projects I am working on.
I'm available for work on a variety of types of project, and along with a team known as Pixel Punch (website coming soon) can provide a full service of digital media solutions to any requirements.
Latest Projects
A drum'n'bass night running in Nottingham... the organisers approached me with ready-made graphics for their website and wanted a template constructing using HTML/CSS and a CMS system built in. I had the site up and running in just a few hours. Link: www.monkeynuts.info
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Link: www.zizzyfay.co.uk
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I'm just putting finishing touches to the randomDev rewrite - have been meaning to do some work on it for ages - as well as adding a bit more polish to the blog engine that drives it. I'll make the source code available once it's finished... it's a simple system that can be implemented mainly using only a few server tags and a little bit of code. I'm just installing the excellent
FCK Editor for WYSIWYG server-side editing.
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A small site put together by Jamie and myself, for a local theatre company:
stateoftheart PERFORMANCE. We built a simple Content Management System using an XML datasource. The content is created and updated by the client. The graphic design was provided by their own designer; we simply turned them into a HTML and CSS layout.
Of interest is the technique we used to give the site "friendly" URLs.
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There are just too many components to grasp what they all actually do sometimes. For instance, I've just discovered the ObjectDataSource. I'd always known it was there, but just not looked into what it did. I didn't like using SqlDataSource because it tied my apps to strongly to a particular database...
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